Toy-Ventures visits Toronto’s newest Vintage shop, 4th Moon Toys. This store is devoted purely to Star Wars memorabilia, and its location is a part of Canadian toy history! You’ll have a good feeling about this magical shop.

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Mattel Tarzan figure set (Sponsored Link) —

I think this may be one of my favourite ’70s figure sets ever. I mean that sincerely. I grew up with Big Jim, and the Filmation Tarzan cartoon is still a passion of mine. To get my set, I had to negotiate with my long-time friend Mark until 3 a.m in a crappy Toronto airport hotel. Sometimes, the stories become intertwined with the toy, and that’s why we collect.

Here’s a video I did on the set.

Bionic Woman Bank (sponsored link) —

I don’t run into figural banks much here in Canada (other than Col. Sanders, which, OMG, did everyone in the country get one?), and that’s probably a good thing because I am powerless against them. I am worried it will be a repeat of the “Blow Mold Obsession” with these banks, and well, I don’t have any more room.

Totally pumped about Mego Meet next Week! I’ll be there handing out Lincoln Monsters Buttons and spritzing with you samples of  my new cologne “Mantooth.” It’s a vitriolic stench but once you used to it, you’ll be fine. 

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Kenner Star Wars Taunton Commercial (eBay Link) —

I collect vintage commercial reels, to me, it’s like owning a little bit of the history. To others, it’s a white box with a film strip inside, so I see both sides of this. I’m not big on Star Wars but this commercial makes me feel nine again.

Action Man Annual (eBay Link) —

These showed up at Shoppers Drug Mart stores in Canada, and I remember it blowing my mind. As a Canadian, I hadn’t seen 12″ GI Joes since 1976 and here was a book loudly proclaiming, “England still has 12″ GI Joes!” It made me wonder what else I was missing toy wise.

El Chapulín Colorado Lunchbox (eBay Link) —

If you saw Blue Beetle, you might recognize this guy from his cameo. I’ve never actually watched this Mexican comedy Superhero series but one of my toy collector mentors when i was a teen had this and loved telling the story about it. Stories were what got me into collecting, and this one was so fun.

Voice of the Mummy boardgame (eBay Link) –

My family collects and often gets together to play weird board games, and this one is something I’ve been trying to track down for years. It has everything I like, Monsters and a weird gimmick. I wish I could find one locally for less than 200 bucks. The trouble with board game collecting is often the shipping.

Mysterious Dr. Satan 16mm film (eBay Link)—

Thanks to TVO’s “Magic Shadows” program and its host, the late Elwy Yoast, I am a Gen-X kid with a better-than-average knowledge of Republic Serials. I’ve seen a ton of these, and I liked “Mysterious Doctor Satan,” which has a made-up superhero called “Copperhead” (a fill-in for Superman when the rights expired!). It revolves around a mad scientist bent on world domination, and you’d better believe he has a robot. Republic used this robot a few times in production, so we should probably give him a name. Oddly enough, this serial was remade in Turkey in the 1970s and I still can’t find a copy. 

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1980 Consumer’s Distributing Catalog

1980 Consumer’s Distributing Catalog

Hello and welcome to Consumer’s Distributing week on PlaidStallions. I recently picked up a grail catalogue in the form of the 1980/81 Consumer’s Distributing catalogue. For those not in the know, Consumer’s was a popular Canadian chain of catalogue showroom shops that ran from the 1950s until about 1995. At their peak, they had over 400 stores in Canada and many Northern US states.

It was not uncommon to see a Consumer’s Distributing catalogue in a Canadian home, especially in my grandmother’s place because she never threw them away. I seriously found the final CD catalogue in her house in 2013.

So, I often correlate this catalogue to spending Sunday afternoons at my grandparent’s house, burning holes into the many toy pages. So, all this week I’ll add scans of my favourites to the blog.

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The release of Empire Strikes Back really renewed my at the time, somewhat languishing interest in all things Star Wars.  There was something of a slump for a lot of us by 1979.

It’s funny that by 1980, the Star Wars toy page was mainly Kenner items with very few “Space Imitators” being involved save for Kusan’s Sonic Fazer and that laser gun that was everywhere.

Now, the figures in this catalogue would come in sets and usually, they came in brown cardboard boxes. I never went this route as a kid, one because I couldn’t afford it and 2 because it was fun to look at those card backs. However, I don’t want to think of what collectors would pay for those cardboard boxes these days. Oi vey.

I got the Falcon for Christmas this year and loved it very much. 

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